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Title: Kagen the Damned: A Novel

Series: #1 of Kagen the Damned

Author: Jonathan Maberry

Narrator: Ray Porter

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 54 minutes

Release date: May 10, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.25 of Total 4

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Kagen the Damned marks the first installment of an exciting new series of dark epic fantasy novels from bestselling author Jonathan Maberry. Sworn by Oath Kagen Vale is the trusted and feared captain of the palace guard, charged with protection of the royal children of the Silver Empire. But one night, Kagen is drugged and the entire imperial family is killed, leaving the empire in ruins. Abandoned by the Gods Haunted and broken, Kagen is abandoned by his gods and damned forever. He becomes a wanderer, trying to take down as many of his enemies as possible while plotting to assassinate the usurper, the deadly Witch-king of Hakkia. While all around him magic—long banished from the world—returns in strange and terrifying ways. Fueled by Rage To exact his vengeance, Kagen must venture into strange lands, battle bizarre and terrifying creatures, and gather allies for a suicide mission into the heart of the Witch-king’s empire. Kings and gods will fear him. Kagen the Damned A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

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Title: Misrule: Book Two of the Malice Duology

Series: #2 of Malice

Author: Heather Walter

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 16 minutes

Release date: May 10, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 2.5 of Total 2

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Does true love break curses or begin them? The dark sorceress of “Sleeping Beauty” reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice. “Fans of reimagined fairy tales and LGBTQ+ themes will be delighted with the conclusion of this fantasy duology.”—Booklist (starred review) The Dark Grace is dead. Feared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce wreaks her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce’s wicked domain. And no one will escape the consequences of her wrath. Not even the one person who holds her heart. Princess Aurora saw through Alyce’s thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. But it is a love that came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce’s vast power cannot seem to break. And the dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash. Alyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means turning into the monster Briar believes her to be. But could Aurora love the villain Alyce has become? Or is true love only for fairy tales?   Book Two of the Malice Duology

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Title: Tear Down the Throne

Series: #2 of A Gargoyle Queen Novel

Author: Jennifer Estep

Narrator: Lauren Fortgang

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 29 minutes

Release date: May 3, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Bestselling author Jennifer Estep continues her Gargoyle Queen epic fantasy series where magic reigns, alliances are tested, and a dangerous attraction could tear down a throne. . . Crown princess. Clever spy. Powerful mind magier. Gemma Ripley of Andvari is all those things—and determined to stop an enemy from using magical tearstone weapons to conquer her kingdom. Gemma’s quest for answers leads her to a trade Summit between the various kingdoms. Among the other royals in attendance is Queen Maeven Morricone of Morta and her son, Prince Leonidas—Gemma’s charming and dangerous nemesis. Gemma knows that Maeven always has a long game in motion, and sure enough, the cunning queen invokes an arcane tradition that threatens the fragile truce between Andvari and the other kingdoms. Despite her best intentions, Gemma once again finds herself thrown together with Leo and battling her growing feelings for the enemy prince. When a series of deadly attacks shatters the Summit’s peaceful negotiations, Gemma realizes that someone wants to tear the royals down from their thrones—and that this enemy just might succeed.

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Title: The Girl and the Moon

Series: #3 of Book of the Ice

Author: Mark Lawrence

Narrator: Helen Duff

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 46 minutes

Release date: April 28, 2022

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Final novel in the chilling and epic new fantasy series from the bestselling and critically-acclaimed author of PRINCE OF THORNS and RED SISTER. 'If you like dark you will love Mark Lawrence. And when the light breaks through and it all makes sense, the contrast is gorgeous' ROBIN HOBB The green world overwhelms all of Yaz’s expectations. Everything seems different but some things remain the same: her old enemies are still bent on her destruction. The Corridor abounds with plenty and unsuspected danger. To stand a chance against the eyeless priest, Eular, and the god-like city-mind, Seus, Yaz will need to learn fast and make new friends. The Convent of Sweet Mercy, like the Corridor itself, is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz needs the nuns’ help – but first they want to execute her. The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those labouring to survive out on ice itself, hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centres on the Ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace. Everyone wants Yaz to be the key that will open the Ark – the one the wise have sought for generations. But sometimes wanting isn’t enough. THE GIRL AND THE MOON is the third and final volume in The Book of Ice trilogy.

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Title: Children of Jade

Series: #3 of Chrysathamere Trilogy

Author: Morgan Cole

Narrator: Patricia Santomasso

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 30 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Rufyllys Vergana, the usurper, has stolen the throne from his adopted brother, Prince Ilruyn, plunging the empire of Navessea into civil war. The very first casualty of that war: Karthtag-Kal Sandaros, Marilia's father. With the help of Ben Espeleos, Prince of Svartennos, Marilia has sworn to bring the usurper and the rest of her father's killers to justice . . . including her own traitorous brother, Annuweth, now serving as the usurper's right hand. Annuweth has sworn an oath of his own—to protect his wife and their unborn child from the forces who mean to destroy them. To guard Rufyllys Vergana's reign against its enemies—even if one of those enemies is his own sister. Navessea's bloody civil war comes to a head in the third and final chapter of the Chrysathamere Trilogy. No one is safe, and no one will be the same. A story of love, loss and redemption, Children of Jade blends the ferocious twists of Game of Thrones at its best with a Last of Us-style saga of bitter revenge.

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Title: The Girl and the Moon

Series: #3 of The Book of the Ice

Author: Mark Lawrence

Narrator: Helen Duff

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 46 minutes

Release date: April 26, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

In the third exhilarating novel in this dazzling epic fantasy series, a young outcast will fight against staggering odds to save her world. On the planet Abeth, a narrow Corridor of green land is surrounded on all sides by ice plains where only the strong survive. Ice triber Yaz has completed a perilous journey and arrived at the Corridor, and it exceeds and overwhelms all of her expectations. Everything seems different but some constants remain: her old enemies are still two steps ahead, bent on her destruction. She makes her way to the Convent of Sweet Mercy, where nuns train young girls who show the old gifts, but like the Corridor itself the convent is packed with peril and opportunity. Yaz has much to learn from the nuns—if they don’t decide to execute her. The fate of everyone squeezed between the Corridor’s vast walls, and ultimately the fate of those laboring to survive out on ice itself, hangs from the moon, and the battle to save the moon centers on the Ark of the Missing, buried beneath the emperor’s palace. Everyone wants Yaz to be the key that will open the Ark – the one the wise have sought for generations. But sometimes wanting isn’t enough.

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Title: A Duet of Sword and Song

Series: #4 of Tale of Stars and Shadow

Author: Lisa Cassidy

Narrator: Danielle Cohen

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 20 hours 14 minutes

Release date: April 19, 2022

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

The time of the Shadowhawk was gone. Now he needed to be more. In the space of a night Cuinn Acondor lost his crown and almost his life. Devastated by Talyn's disappearance, he's on the run, fleeing from Armun and Shadow hunters who want to destroy everything he stands for. But he won't give up. Together with the resurgent Wolves, he begins preparing to take back what Azrilan stole from them. After killing their Shadow betrayer, Talyn is captured and thrown in a Montagni labour camp. With no way of knowing what happened to Cuinn or her Wolves, she fights desperately to find a way out, to return home to them. Like Cuinn, she refuses to give up, no matter what . . . even if escaping means allying with her greatest enemy. In the Twin Thrones, the Dumnorix are banding together and marshalling their forces. Firthland has brought war to their shores. And they intend on fighting back.

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Title: The Price of Power: A LitRPG Cultivation Saga

Series: #2 of Infinite Realm

Author: Ivan Kal

Narrator: Phil Thron

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 35 hours 5 minutes

Release date: April 19, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.81 of Total 21

Ratings of Narrator: 4.76 of Total 17

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

New adventures in the Infinite Realm! Zach and Ryun had both reached the Infinite Realm. As the only two survivors of the old Earth, they are the strongest Rankers that had ever arrived in the Infinite Realm. Both dropped outside of the usual arrival zone, and left to fend for themselves. Each had found a way to survive. Ryun is now a Sect Head, tasked with ruling territories and people. Accepting their service in return for his protection. But while he was the strongest being on Earth, he is nothing compared to the old monsters living in the Infinite Realm. Will he be able to advance far and fast enough to catch up and protect the things and a few people that he had started to care for? Zach had joined the Wardens, a faction that serves as a law enforcement for hire. Seeing in them his best chance at learning more about the Infinite Realm and figuring out the best way to proceed. And perhaps eventually to find the monster that had taken everything from him.

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Title: The Hunger of the Gods

Series: #2 of The Bloodsworn Trilogy

Author: John Gwynne

Narrator: Colin Mace

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 22 hours 58 minutes

Release date: April 12, 2022

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 19

Ratings of Narrator: 4.67 of Total 12

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

Set in a Norse-inspired world and packed with myth, magic, and vengeance, this epic saga follows a band of warriors as they face the wrath of ancient gods and change the shape of the world. Lik-Rifa, the dragon god of legend, has been freed from her eternal prison. Now she plots a new age of blood and conquest.        As Orka continues the hunt for her missing son, the Bloodsworn sweep south in a desperate race to save one of their own–and Varg takes the first steps on the path of vengeance.        Elvar has sworn to fulfil her blood oath and rescue a prisoner from the clutches of Lik-Rifa and her dragonborn followers, but first she must persuade the Battle-Grim to follow her.   Yet even the might of the Bloodsworn and Battle-Grim cannot stand alone against a dragon god.      Their hope lies within the mad writings of a chained god. A book of forbidden magic with the power to raise the wolf god Ulfrir from the dead . . .and bring about a battle that will shake the foundations of the earth.   Praise for The Shadow of the Gods “There is not a dull chapter in this fantasy epic.” —Vulture (Best of the Year)   "A satisfying and riveting read. It’s everything I’ve come to expect from a John Gwynne book." —Robin Hobb   "A masterfully crafted, brutally compelling Norse-inspired epic." —Anthony Ryan   "A masterclass in storytelling . . . epic, gritty fantasy with an uncompromising amount of heart." —FanFiAddict     For more from John Gwynne, check out:   The Bloodsworn Trilogy The Shadow of the Gods   Of Blood and Bone A Time of Dread A Time of Blood A Time of Courage   The Faithful and the Fallen Malice Valor Ruin Wrath

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Title: In a Garden Burning Gold: Book One of the Wind-up Garden series

Series: #1 of The Wind-up Garden Series

Author: Rory Power

Narrator: Jesse Vilinsky

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 15 hours 37 minutes

Release date: April 5, 2022

Genres: Epic Fantasy

Publisher's Summary:

“Fresh and original . . . full of lush writing and detailed worldbuilding . . . [with a] rich fantasy landscape and an almost Shakespearean feel.”—Paste Twins imbued with incredible magic and near-immortality will do anything to keep their family in power—even if it tears the family apart—in the first book of a mythic epic fantasy duology from the New York Times bestselling author of Wilder Girls. ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022—BookPage    Rhea and Lexos were born into a family unlike any other. Together with their siblings, they control the seasons, the tides, and the stars, and help their father rule their kingdom. Thanks to their magic, the family has ruled for an eternity, and plan to rule for an eternity more.    But Rhea and Lexos are special: They are twins, bonded down to the bone, and for the past hundred years, that bond has protected them as their father becomes an unpredictable tyrant—and his worsening temper threatens the family’s grip on power.     Now, with rival nations ready to attack, and a rebel movement within their own borders, Rhea and Lexos must fight to keep the kingdom—and the family—together, even as treachery, deceit, and drama threaten to strand the twins on opposite sides of the battlefield.    In a Garden Burning Gold is a vividly written, atmospheric saga that explores the limits of power and the bonds of family—and how far both can be bent before they break.